Professor Vicky Pryce is the Chief Economic Adviser and board member at the Centre for Economics and Business Research. She was previously the Director-General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service and Chief Economist and Partner at KPMG after senior economic positions in the banking and energy sector. She is the co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on Corporate Social Responsibility. She has held several academic posts and is a Fellow and Council member of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Society of Professional Economists and a Companion of the British Academy of Management.
Her recent books include: It’s the Economy Stupid, Economics for Voters, with Ross and Urwin; Greekonomics, The Euro Crisis and Why Politicians Don’t Get It; Redesigning Manufacturing, with Nielsen and Beverland; and Women vs Capitalism.